FIN 8410 - Valuation and Strategic Financial Management

3 Credit Hours 3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours
Prerequisites: FIN 8020 or equivalent.
This course focuses on designing and implementing systems that promote and reward decisions that add market value to investor-supplied funds. Conceptual frameworks for valuation are developed and their usefulness in practice is examined and evaluated. Valuation frameworks are used to measure and analyze the historical performance of actual companies. Operating, investing, and financing strategies are developed for actual companies, targets are established for value drivers, and future performance is forecasted. Measurement, evaluation, and compensation systems are designed to align the interests of managers and owners to produce business decisions that increase the market value added to investor-supplied funds.